Recent vRealize Posts by Technology

This is for all you MacBook users out there. If you are like me and run a VM to use the VMRC console, well those days are over. VMware Remote Console 7.1 for mac was released yesterday!
Last October, VMware announced the release of the first standalone VMware Remote Console application for Windows. Yesterday, VMware went live with the first-ever VMware Remote Console (VMRC) for Mac OS. Until the end of last year, VMRC has been a plug-in component in the web clients of vSphere, vCloud … [Read More...]

There is not really much I can add to the debate on NSX vs ACI except to share my opinion on a few things.
Let’s look at the world as it is today. It is a virtual world. At least 80% of workloads in most datacenters today are virtualized. So that leaves roughly 20% of workloads as physical. How often do physical workloads move to different servers, racks, datacenters etc? Not very often right? You rack them, you cable them, you plug them in, you configure the port(s) and that is … [Read More...]

Yesterday VMware was very busy announcing the release of over 2 dozen product which included two new products to the market these two new additions to the VMware portfolio are:
VMware Integrated Openstack - That's right it's out and it's available now for you to download.
VMware Software Manager 1.0 - This probably not as exciting as VIO, but it will come in handy for finding, selecting, and downloading the content needed to install or upgrade a VMware Suite.
Below is a list of all the … [Read More...]

This is for all you MacBook users out there. If you are like me and run a VM to use the VMRC console, well those days are over. VMware Remote Console 7.1 for mac was released yesterday!
Last October, VMware announced the release of the first standalone VMware Remote Console application for Windows. Yesterday, VMware went live with the first-ever VMware Remote Console (VMRC) for Mac OS. Until the end of last year, VMRC has been a plug-in component in the web clients of vSphere, vCloud … [Read More...]

Yesterday VMware was very busy announcing the release of over 2 dozen product which included two new products to the market these two new additions to the VMware portfolio are:
VMware Integrated Openstack - That's right it's out and it's available now for you to download.
VMware Software Manager 1.0 - This probably not as exciting as VIO, but it will come in handy for finding, selecting, and downloading the content needed to install or upgrade a VMware Suite.
Below is a list of all the … [Read More...]

Featured Post

There is not really much I can add to the debate on NSX vs ACI except to share my opinion on a few things.
Let’s look at the world as it is today. It is a virtual world. At least 80% of workloads in most datacenters today are virtualized. So that leaves roughly 20% of workloads as physical. How often do physical workloads move to different servers, racks, datacenters etc? Not very often right? You rack them, you cable them, you plug them in, you configure the port(s) and that is basically where it lives for the rest of it days. Any rules or policies you need for those machines get created and that’s it. … [Read More...]

vCAC Demystified

vCAC has what is referred to as the "Master Workflow" which makes up the Virtual Machine Lifecycle. The Master workflow is the top level workflow states that a virtual machine will go through, throughout it's life. These workflow states tie pretty … [Read More...]

I have seen a rise in questions regarding vCAC 5.x and integration with XenDesktop. This article is not a step by step on how to configure integration with XenDesktop, but information on capabilities and use cases for integration.
Supported … [Read More...]

vCAC utilizes custom properties in many different ways. They can be very useful if properly understood. To start with there are two high level classifications for custom properties. Those are:
Reserved Custom Properties - These are properties … [Read More...]

I have written a few articles that show you how to configure "Reservations" in vCAC. In this article I'm going to dig in to some details around "Reservations", how they work, and the additional options that are available for them.
What are … [Read More...]

There are two types of DEMs that are used within vCAC. Those are:
Orchestrator DEM
Worker DEM
DEMs in General
You have to have at least one Orchestrator DEM and Worker DEM, but depending on the size of your environment you may have … [Read More...]

Previous Posts

Version 1.1.0 of vRelize Code Stream has been released today. For those who are not familiar vRealize Code Stream is a release automation tool for continuos integration / continuos development environments allowing for a rapid development, testing, … [Read More...]

So far I have covered how to setup Git, Eclipse, Jenkins, Code Stream, and a little Artifactory. We have Eclipse checking code into Git and Jenkins pulling the code and simply building it into a tar.gz file. We also have Code Stream setup to use … [Read More...]

For those of you who are fortunate enough to be able to get a trial for Code Stream this article will walk you through the installation and initial configuration of the product. Code stream as the name suggest is part of the vRealize product line … [Read More...]

In part 1 of this article we deployed both GitLab and Jenkins, configured a Git project and connected it to the Eclipse IDE. In this article we will focus on configuring the Jenkins server to work with our GitLab repository and crate a Jenkins job … [Read More...]

I realize many of you looking to understand what Code Stream can do to help you with your Continuous Integration needs already have Git Jenkins and a whole ton of other tools. However for those who don’t yet have anything in place or for those who … [Read More...]

Authors

Sid Smith, founder of DailyHypervisor is considered to be a cloud expert in the IT field with over 10 years experience in Virtualization, Automation, and Cloud technologies. Sid Smith started in the industry designing and implementing large scale enterprise server and desktop virtualization environments for fortune 100 and 500 companies.Read More…